Scholz & Volkmer will be presenting current trends on the subject of "Visualising Information", thus providing insights into areas such as design, architecture, performance, film, art, technology, research and communication. In addition to the focus on "data visualization" as a design discipline, the focus is increasingly on how social truths can assert themselves through visualization in the flood of information.

As part of the project "Berlin Poland | Fashion Business & Manufacture 2019-2020", the International Design Centre Berlin invites you to a kickoff workshop.

In our workshops we would like to supply Berlin fashion companies with practical knowledge and tools as well as support them in establishing and maintaining production partnerships. In addition, new cross-border business ideas and cooperations will be developed, which will then be continued independently.

The opening workshop serves to align and define the goals, which will be worked out in four follow-up workshops with Berlin labels and Polish textile producers.

The participation is free of charge, the number of participants is limited.

On 3 and 4 May 2019, the Kunstmuseen Krefeld and the Association for the History of Design will hold a joint conference on contemporary design. The focus of this historically and theoretically oriented conference will be on the creation, production and use of design for everyday life.

On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary the German Design Day starts the series "Bauhaus 4.0 - Future is made of design". In a total of ten panel discussions, ideas for the design of a future worth living will be collected. In each case three to four top creative people with very different fields of activity and experience will ask themselves questions such as: How can we use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus not only to react to social developments, but to actively shape them ourselves? How can we learn from the most sustainable design school in history?

The fourth panel discussion will take place in Aalen/Stuttgart. The topic:

On 9 May, the touring exhibition "Re:Form - A tribute to 100 years of Bauhaus" will be opened at stilwerk Hamburg. IDZ member and designer Tassilo von Grolmann will be present as guest of honour. Registration until 3 May at: stilwerk.com

On 11 May, the twenty-first colloquium "Design Graduated" of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF) will take place in Essen. Here, PhD students in design have the opportunity to present their research topic for discussion among like-minded people. Experienced design researchers are invited to provide helpful comments.

Artificial intelligence is on everyone's lips in politics, business, art. The fields of application of AI are as diverse as their aspects. MS Science , the exhibition ship of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, shows how new technologies influence everyday life and what science and research contribute to the development of AI. The exhibition, conceived by the Berlin creative agency Archimedes Exhibitions, will tour almost 30 cities in Germany and Austria until 24 October.

From 18 May to 20 October the exhibition "FOOD: Bigger than the Plate" can be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum London. The project "infObjects" by our member Johanna Spath is part of the exhibition. The three-dimensional visualisation of information is intended to encourage people to engage with the consumption and handling of food.

In 2019, the Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a full-day symposium and General Assembly in Brussels. Nothing less will be designed than a new vision for design in Europe. As a member of BEDA, the IDZ is looking forward to further developing the EU action plan "Design Driven Innovation" of 2013 together with more than 50 European design centres - and thus to representing the role of design as an important part of European innovation policy.

On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary the German Design Day starts the series "Bauhaus 4.0 - Future is made of design". In a total of ten panel discussions, ideas for the design of a future worth living will be collected. In each case three to four top creative people with very different fields of activity and experience will ask themselves questions such as: How can we use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus not only to react to social developments, but to actively shape them ourselves? How can we learn from the most sustainable design school in history?

The fifth panel discussion will take place in Reinbek/Hamburg. The topic:

June 2019

Artificial intelligence is on everyone's lips in politics, business, art. The fields of application of AI are as diverse as their aspects. MS Science , the exhibition ship of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, shows how new technologies influence everyday life and what science and research contribute to the development of AI. The exhibition, conceived by the Berlin creative agency Archimedes Exhibitions, will tour almost 30 cities in Germany and Austria until 24 October.

From 18 May to 20 October the exhibition "FOOD: Bigger than the Plate" can be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum London. The project "infObjects" by our member Johanna Spath is part of the exhibition. The three-dimensional visualisation of information is intended to encourage people to engage with the consumption and handling of food.

This year again, the German Design Council and the German Brand Institute are honoring successful brands and brand communication. The awards ceremony for the German Brand Award will take place on 6 June.

On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary the German Design Day starts the series "Bauhaus 4.0 - Future is made of design". In a total of ten panel discussions, ideas for the design of a future worth living will be collected. In each case three to four top creative people with very different fields of activity and experience will ask themselves questions such as: How can we use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus not only to react to social developments, but to actively shape them ourselves? How can we learn from the most sustainable design school in history?

The sixth panel discussion will take place in Hemmingen/Hannover. The topic:

»Bauhaus 4.0 meets social & culture design: Using design and architecture to develop new paths for cultural integration and social cohesion«

On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary the German Design Day starts the series "Bauhaus 4.0 - Future is made of design". In a total of ten panel discussions, ideas for the design of a future worth living will be collected. In each case three to four top creative people with very different fields of activity and experience will ask themselves questions such as..: How can we use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus not only to react to social developments, but to actively shape them ourselves? How can we learn from the most sustainable design school in history?

The seventh panel discussion will take place in Dortmund. The topic:

»Bauhaus 4.0 meets communication design & illustration: design and politics in times of fake news – what is the new function of editorial design and visual storytelling in the context of democracy?«

Retail structures are breaking up, living environments are changing, and new challenges for the consumer goods industry arise almost daily. In order to master the challenges of the constantly changing retail landscape together with the retail trade and the consumer goods industry, Tendence 2019 from 29 June to 1 July offers a broad supporting programme in addition to the major exhibition.